Firefox 4 Beta 6 is being renamed to Beta 7; shipping regression beta 5 regression fixes this week

[Mike Beltzner]

Hey everyone,

Because everyone's busy, here's a "too long; didn't read" (tl;dr) version:

// Summary
- if you're working on beta blockers, nothing has changed except that
"beta6+" will now be "beta7+" in your queries and bugs
- we will ship a small, incremental update to beta 5 this week
- beta 7 will be produced according to the previous beta 6 schedule
- beta 7 will be considered the feature freeze milestone

// Full Version

We've decided to issue a small beta update in order to fix a stability
issue on Windows [1] and some rendering and keyboard/mouse focus issues
on OSX related to plugins [2]. This small update should be ready late
tomorrow, and will be presented as "Firefox 4 Beta 6".

This should have NO EFFECT on the schedule of the feature freeze
milestone, other than to have its name change to "Firefox 4 Beta 7." I
have filed a bug to change all the blocking flags from
"blocking2.0:beta6+" to "blocking2.0:beta7+" [3] and I have updated the
release description pages on the wiki [4]

Once again, this means that what was known as "Firefox 4 Beta 6" will
now be "Firefox 4 Beta 7." We're not adding a beta to our cycle, we're
just issuing some fixes for stability and usability to the beta
audience, and our numbering system requires that we bump the version
number. :)

cheers,
mike

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589296
[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592563
[3]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596139
[4]: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases